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Rebelion emerges in 1996, developed from Spain by a nonprofit group of journalists who boosted another model of communication not dependent on large media or market conditionings.[4] The site doesn't have physical location and works through organization by sections with a responsible assigned by section.[1] The ideological orientation of published contents is based on:

(...) to accommodate all the voices that honestly and sincerely try to bring some clarity and truth on behalf of the people and silenced by the mainstream media. (...) For those who are only the voice of power, money and neoliberalism, there is no place in Rebelion, they already have CNN.

According to their promoters, it is an alternative means which publishes news that are not considered important by traditional media. Furthermore, it tries to give a different news treatment to "showing the interests that economic and political powers among the capitalist world hide in order to preserve their privileges and current status". It rests on Non governmental organizations and people who work to "change the world from a radically different, more just, equal and balanced perspective".[5]

The web site content is hosted on the servers of the Institute of Political Studies for Latin America and Africa (IEPALA), "Gloobal.net".[6]

Rebelión has a team of translation Spanish. From other languages made up, according to its website, about thirty people.

The website mostly harbors opinion articles, as well as news, interviews and reviews about current politic, social, economic and cultural themes all over the world. There is an especial emphasis in Latin America and Near East. The highlight is the capitalism critics, the international American politics and the Zionism. Rebelión contains some sections: Free Knowledge, Culture, Social Ecology, Economy, Lies and Media, Opinion and Another World is Possible. Also has a territorial division between Africa, Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, USA, Spain, Europe, Iraq, Mexico, Palestine, Near East, and Venezuela. As well, Rebelión contains digital books and texts for free download in its section Free Books. The texts with an original Rebelión source has a license Creative Commons Acknowledgment nonprofit without derivative works. However, sometimes the text traduction license of famous writers it doesn't provide or it is a source unknown.

The website has a Pagerank site in 7, according to Google, and depending on the site Alexa in the pagelists more visited in the world occupied about the place number 22000 in September 2009.

Rebelión has access statistics around 150000 read page per day, it is to say, 4500000 per month, and 80000 access at the portrait each day. Alexa place Rebelión as the alternative Spanish information website most read in all over the world, with users who are from more than 50 countries.

Meanwhile, in the documentation of the New Information and Communication Technologies master's degree, imparted by the UNED, Alicia Meynart defines Rebelión as an interesting website, with an alternative focus, compared to official information currents. At the same time, she states "shocked by the information amplitude". Also the University of Chile, into its Information and Libraries Services System, that includes Rebelión as a reference website in its online means lists.

Another book is La batalla de los intelectuales: nuevo discurso de las armas y las letras ("The battle of intellectuals: new discourse about weapons and letters")[11] by the playwrightAlfonso Sastre. In its second edition, it included several texts about the debate developed in Rebelión after its first edition.[12]

According to Rebelion, the direction of the Spanish newspaper El País wrote an email to the journalist Pascual Serrano demanding him the withdrawal of an article entitled "El País contra Chávez, fuego a discreción" for violation of their copyright. Pascual Serrano's attorney replied that "does not reproduce the article, but it makes a quotation of it protected by the article 32 of Law 23/2006 of July 7, by amending the Revised Intellectual Property Act, approved by the Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996 of April 12". According to Rebelion, El Pais maintained its position regarding to the violation of copyright, and Pasqual Serrano his, keeping the published article.[13]